We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.